i sure do hope these folks have life insurance, SIKE this is natural selection at it'$ finest. butt if they do need life insurance I would recommend the geico salamander. rawr *snuggles closer to u* rwar love yall.

I am going to advertise. And you guys act like this is my first time doing this. Gladius has been much more dead than this, and then it hit the 50 player cap and had to be raised. It'll happen again. I'm just going through a lot of shit right now.

Non, I think you can easily revive the server, just not the way you’re doing it. ‘Voting drives’ and other player incentives don’t work, you need to market the server and possibly focus more on branding.

I'm not saying the playcount won't/cant recover, and I'm genuinely anticipating that it does. I still want the server to succeed and all, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that as it is rn, I believe the reset has messed with the server's chungus.

CJ, I really do think you're remembering it incorrectly. It has definitely been more dead than this. There were times when I thought Gladius might not come back. Now, there's at least a couple of players on at pretty much all times.

With the resets what we've essentially done is refined out the population until all that remains are the long time players who have for whatever reason stuck around for as long as they have, and during that refinement lost everybody else.

to keep the server moderately populated and draw in new places to replace the ones that left. But the more we reset, the more our population decreased. And eventually that led us here, where only little more than a dozen or so veteran players remain.

So, yah, I think it is fair to assume the reason why we have no players is solely because of the reset. Each time a reset happens, we lose off some of the playerbase. The first couple did not impact us much, because we had a large enough playerbase

Amy never in my four years here have I seen the server this inactive, even at this time of year. Even during the summer, what is supposed to be our most active season, the server was virtually dead. And, chief, if the players who voted for a reset

I think most players know they'll only play on any one server provisionally. The reset was unfortunate but i don't think assuming the reason why we have no players is solely because of it. Even if players voted for the reset they were probably

I voted for the reset, and abandoned Minecraft long before it. To be honest, I've been having decline in players on my own servers so it's just likely that it's busier time of year and folks are investing time into RL priorities.

So Sweden had international election observers for the first time in like forever and one of the dudes said it was the least democratic election he has ever seen (and he has observer russian and young eastern european elections) :/

people thinking making a post on the front page of a website where the only people who visit it are the same people who play on the server think it will bring gladius back to life. read also: anyone who stumbles back to this forgotten hell hole will

I so long for a president who loved his country like reagan. God bless his memory and the conservative values he exemplified and whose actions embodied how to be "presidential" and that being an American made you special.

Dear CJ - only reason I still hang around here is to log my Space Engineers activities and have a few laughs, as far as the Gladius Community goes, it's been dead to me for a very long time. Sincerely - Tru`stone

TRUSTONE I WILL SHIT UP YOUR ASS SO FUCKING HARD OKAY NOBODY LOVES YOU SO I SUGGEST YOU START BEING NICE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE CLOSEST THING YOU'LL EVER HAVE TO A FAMILY. NON HAS SHOWN HIS CLEMENCY BY ALLOWING YOU TO REMAIN HERE AFTER SHOWING

I'm leaning very heavy towards having little to no vote rewards, and instead getting a key that will open a chest according to your rank. This, I think, would make rewards look less OP. There will be nerfing either way, it's a question of how much.

But seriously if it only takes three people, even if those people are at farms, to eliminate the chances of any other player receiving spawns then the issue is internal. What if three separate people are using farms?

I appreciate the patience (most) of you have had with us. Under the hood, this was a huge update, and Tailz and I have both been super busy with the real world. We are both committing a very large chunk of our free time to this, so please try to be understanding!

Hey all, we are getting closer to having Gladius back to it's full glory. Because of that we've reopened the old server and I need you guys to go test the transfer world. All the instructions are listed in this forum post. If you have any questions please drop them there. Thank you!

I could have spent my vacation working on my house but instead I got sucked into Gladius.

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First up I revisited Dittmanns' beautiful Coleseum build. I've tweaked the armor to be full P4 and I also added in commands to create random item chests. The arena still uses 1.8 mechanics, so let us know what you think about keeping that or not. I see this being an arena for God battles, we'd like you input on that as well. My next plans for this arena will be to create player switchable option for this, being either a team death match session or a battle royale type thing where it's everyone for themselves. After all I've done on the spleef arena that shouldn't be too hard, it will just take time.

Speaking of the Spleef arena, I've been working on it for the last couple of days and it is now currently open and in Beta phase testing. I've already fixed a couple things players have mentioned, like people logging out and breakable blocks. I'm sure there will be more bugs to be found, just keep a list for me. The playing field adjust slightly according to how many players join in. Everyone seems to be enjoying it though so that's a win for all of us! I was honestly surprised at how much fun I found it to be when I actually got to play.

Thanks again to Dittmanns for the Coleseum Arena and Loomis & Xipheus for the Spleef Arena, they are both gorgeous.

We've had some lag issues recently, so I got us a new server a few days ago. I'm still working on it, but it's at a good state now and is almost ready for the transfer.

There will be no reset this time, as there is no need for it. This also means there will be no ban forgiveness.

The IP will change (I will update the play.gladiusmc.org URL to match the new IP, but it may take a few hours to update). I will also have to stop the server for a few hours (during this time, I will put up a new, blank server for everyone to play around on). These are the only changes players should notice.

Gladius' New Year's resolution is to reduce lag as much as possible :)